Re: PostgreSQL 9.2 benchmarks

Francois Tigeot <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:21:36PM +1000, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > Some rapid conclusions:
> > - Scientific Linux smokes all other operating systems
> 
> Very interesting. I wonder what do Linux people do differently to get
> their OS so much faster. I would have imagined maybe 20% faster than BSDs,
> but a whopping 100%? That almost doesn't sound right.

The tests were done with a connection to 127.0.0.1.

The current theory is Linux has special localhost handling which
effectively makes it bypass all regular networking paths.

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Francois Tigeot
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